Monday, October 28, 2013

TAX DOLLARS SPENT ON OUR BEHALF:  How much do any of us know or understand about where our tax dollars go?  Of course the answer is not much.  And there's the rub to the growth of big government, runaway spending, corrupt politicians and huge, unmanageable and ultimately destructive deficits.  How many of us know about the Pigford case brought against the Agriculture Department by a black farmer who claimed discrimination when his loan application was turned down by the government agency?  How many know how Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and their political appointees from the Democrat Party caused the financial crises of '07-'08 with the greatest wealth destruction ever experienced in our history? "We are poor little sheep who have lost our way" is a verse from the famous Whiffenpoof Song and it accurately describes our dilemma as citizens.  We simply have no control over how and how much is spent in our name and on our behalf by representatives sent to Washington in our behalf.  We are pawns, putty, used to justify whatever the spending machine chooses to spend on projects designed in one way or another, to elect these very representatives chosen to look after our interests.  They are not looking after our interests, they are looking out for the interests of their special interests clients and the voters those interests represent. We need very big change.

ANOTHER CORRUPT OFFICIAL ON THE WAY:  If you're not corrupt, no need apply for key jobs in the Obama administration.  One more example of how the system works these days.

ONE MORE PIECE TO THE PUZZLE:  Nothing really new here except the extent of government corruption involved  This story defies understanding.  The only answer to it all is to get the friggin government out of the economy because every -- every - time they get involved nothing turns out well.

BRITISH COMEDIAN AND HARRY REID AGREE:  Watching a video of the very weird "comedian" from GB who has decided the rich, and the corporations should pay much more in taxes, a position Harry Reid agrees suggesting everyone, including the rich, agree with him.  I am willing to raise taxes on those companies that have contracts with the Federal Gov (and their executives) so long as taxes are offset among the rest.  Truth is the only way to shrink the size of government is to starve the beast.  Take away tax revenues and force them to downsize.